2007 Tornado North Americans- That sinking feeling

by Event Media/Sail-World on 1 Feb 2007 Great racing on day three of the 2007 North American Championship on Key Biscayne, but not for everyone.

Three races were completed and sunny skies have returned to Miami. The breeze started as a Northerly ended as an Easterly in the low teens.

There are record 14 countries represented at the 2007 North American Championship, and the level of competition is top notch. All of the top 10 in the ISAF World Rankings are at the event; and 20 of the to 30.

The leader board has been very active, as Echavarri and Paz (ESP) have surged forward; as have Johansson and Stittle (CAN) and the Mittlemeier brothers (GER).

The 2006 World Champions and Rolex Miami OCR champions Bundock and Ashby (AUS) were hit (hard) by the French team of Guichard and Guyader in Race 3 and their Tornado sank. The French team retired from the race.

The Australians port bow was holed and one of the internal structural bulkheads was punched through. They received redress for Races 3, 4, and 5.

Bundock commented - ‘a disappointing day, we sunk after a collision with the French. A big hole and broken spinnaker snuffer. We will use the Greek boat tomorrow.'

The racing continues tomorrow, with three more races. Fresh Southeasterly breezes are expected.


Pos Sail Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 Total Points

1 AUS 8 Bundock, Darren 1 13 0/RDG 0/RDG 0/RDG 14.00
2 ESP 1 Echavarri, Fernando 9 1 4 2 1 17.00
3 CAN 7 Johansson, Oskar 4 6 7 12 2 31.00
4 GER 1096 Mittelmeier, Tino 11 4 1 3 17 36.00
5 AUT 3 Hagara, Roman 3 25 2 1 8 39.00
6 GBR 436 McMillan, Leigh 5 11 3 21 4 44.00
7 GER 7 Polgar, Johannes 12 3 9 5 16 45.00
8 RUS 97 Kirilyuk, Andrey 13 8 11 8 5 45.00
9 ESP 23 Rivas, Toni 19 7 5 6 9 46.00
10 USA 808 Lovell, John 7 2 10 15 15 49.00
11 FRA 302 Backes, Olivier 17 9 6 7 12 51.00
12 GBR 430 Walsh, Andrew 2 12 12 13 18 57.00
13 FRA 7 Guichard, Yann 6 5 36/DNF 10 6 63.00
14 GER 1104 Gaebler, Roland 10 16 14 16 10 66.00
15 USA 804 Daniel, Robbie 15 22 19 9 7 72.00
16 PUR 1 Figueroa, Enrique 8 17 20 17 19 81.00
17 AUT 381 Zajac, Thomas 23 18 8 14 21 84.00
18 FRA 1 Xavier, Revil 18 10 17 4 36/DNF 85.00
19 GBR 431 Gimson, John 20 14 15 11 25 85.00
20 DEN 1 Norregaard, Allan 30 15 13 25 3 86.00
21 NED 8 Booth, Mitch 14 20 26 18 11 89.00
22 USA 84 Mirsky, Andre 16 19 23 19 23 100.00
23 RUS 7 Dhzienbaev, Sergey 21 23 16 24 22 106.00
24 NED 3 Koning, Coen De 27 21 24 22 13 107.00
25 BEL 7 Brouwer, Carolijn 36/DNS 36/DNS 18 20 14 124.00
26 USA 840 Thinschmidt, Donald 28 26 22 23 26 125.00
27 USA 4 Jason, Olli 26 27 21 36/DNF 24 134.00
28 USA 813 Grandfield, Mike 31 28 31 29 20 139.00
29 USA 824 Malcheski, Martin 29 29 29 26 27 140.00
30 CAN 2 Dubuc, Alain 24 33 27 30 28 142.00
31 USA 151 Newberry, Sarah 32 31 25 27 31 146.00
32 CAN 99 Dobbs, Mike 34 30 30 28 29 151.00
33 CHN 58 Youjia, Luo 33 32 28 31 30 154.00
34 GBR 438 Rashley, Christopher 25 24 36/DNS 36/DNS 36/DNS 157.00
35 GBR 7 Wilson, Rob 22 36/DNF 36/DNS 36/DNS 36/DNS 166.00